get her home, to have her back. reporter: the stunning and embarrassing saga involving the 15-year-old culminated friday night here at the dallas airport with turner walking out of the airport, walking hand in hand with her mother and grandmother. it was her grandmother who spent months and months scouring the internet trying to find any kind of signs of her granddaughter who had run away from home back in november of 2010. and that was when the story all began to unravel. when turner was arrested in houston in april of last year, gave authorities the fake name of tika cortez. essentially the teenage run away got herself deported and now she is back in dallas. there are still a great number of questions that remain unanswered as to how she could ve fooled so many people in so many different ways. and her attorney says that someone will have to pay for that. make the people who are responsible pay for the civil rights violations that ms. turner has had to go through.
countries, that her name is really tika cortez. why she did this, we don t know. her family finally tracked her down on facebook. we don t know when she was really deported, but that s when i saw her on facebook, when i saw her picture. colombia s right there to the side, you know. where you are shows up on facebook. and it had colombia there. so i started looking it up. is this a colombian newspaper? no, facebook. the computer. but i had a detective to check it for me. it wasn t a regular detective. someone who came to the shop and they checked it. and she was in colombia. i knew it all the time. but i just wanted to prove to other people that she was there. weird story. these are some of the posts that led to her grandmother to look in colombia. was in jail, now i m a free man
she s an american teenager who ran away from home. she convinced american colombian officials her name was tika cortez. her family wants answer but right now are just happy to have their daughter home. they want their daughter to get some rest. they want to reunite the family. that s the purpose of this day. they re very happy that we were able to get them home. federal immigration officials are investigating the situation. a two-ship convoy is making the first of its kind journey to nome, alaska. western alaska. leading the way for a russian fuel tanker. bad weather cancelled a similar shipment to nome last fall. this is the first time fuel has been taken through the ice covered waters to western alaska. check out this video from the u.s. navy. 13 iranian fishermen held by pirates.
it was her grandmother who spent months scouring the internet trying to find any kind of signs of her granddaughter, who had run away from home back in november of 2010, and that was when this story all began to unravel. when turner was arrested in houston, in april of last year, gave authorities the fake name of tika cortez, and said she was an illegal immigrant from colombia. she got herself deported and now almost 15 months later, she is back in dallas. there are still a great number of questions that remain unanswered how she could have fooled so many people in so many different ways and her attorney says that someone will have to pay for that. make the people who are responsible pay for the civil rights violations that ms. turner had had to go through. reporter: jakadrien turner walked out of the airport visibly emotional and overwhelmed by the amount of attention her story received here. her mother and grandmother left
tika cortez and said she was an illegal immigrant from columbia. essentially, the teenage run away got herself deported and now almost 15 months later she is back in dallas. there are a great number of questions that remain unanswered as to how she could have fooled so many people in so many ways and her attorney says someone will have to pay for that. jakadien turner walked out of the airport visibly upset. her mother and grandmother were very quiet. someone close to the family says all she wants to do is sit around and watch television with her family and try to reconnect after so much time. part of a trail outside